Enhancing skills through additional qualifications: Certifying programs at the JMU

“And what are you going to do with that?”
Students of humanities subjects are asked this question time and again. To avoid shrugging your shoulders and saying “something to do with cultural media”, it is important to know your own skills and goals at an early stage. Most jobs for humanities graduates are not advertised. However, there are many opportunities to find jobs through personal contacts or unsolicited applications. The lecture series introduces people who have followed this path themselves and some of whom are now working in very traditional fields for humanities graduates, while others are also pursuing exciting activities in completely unexpected areas.

As a result of advancing globalization and digitalization, the job market is not only subject to ever faster change, but is also influenced by diverse and unpredictable crises.
The importance of interdisciplinary, transversal skills is constantly increasing on the job market. It is therefore a particular concern of the Career Centre to present not only future-oriented and interesting professional fields and career paths as part of this series of events, but also which programs students can and should use to develop their skills with regard to the various professional fields.
In this context, various certificate programs are presented in the introductory event:

Professional Skills Certificate (PSZ) - Career Centre
Additional qualification in cultural mediation - Dr. Christine Ott
GSiK certificates: Intercultural Competence and Sustainability and Global Responsibility - Johanna Lawall
Certificate Program Recognizing and Preventing Abuse of Power (MEV) - Prof. Dr. Andrea Kübler

Further information and registration can be found here.